Ensure a sustainable future
SUCCESSION PLANNING
With many Senior Leaders preparing to retire, and the reality of annual Board turnover, ensuring organizational stability can be challenging. Investing in succession planning can mitigate risks, and ensure smooth transitions.
The benefits of succession planning for not-for-profit organizations include:
- CONTINUITY – Enabling critical organizational roles, at the operational and governance level, to be filled promptly
- CAPACITY BUILDING – Fostering a culture of growth and development
- STABILITY - Supporting retention and enhancing morale by encouraging staff and board members to aspire to leadership roles
- LEGACY PLANNING – Investing in seasoned CEOs/EDs to intentionally transfer organizational history and knowledge to the next generation of leaders
Heather Graham supports the Board Executive and CEO/ED to create and implement succession plans that ensure smooth transitions by:
- Aligning succession planning with strategic goals
- Coaching seasoned Executive Directors/CEOs to get clear about their exit strategy, and the legacy they want to leave behind
- Creating Board policies and procedures that enable succession planning for the Board Executive
- Evaluating current leadership capacities to identify potential successors
- Designing processes that nurture successful coaching and mentoring relationships and prepare successors for future roles
TESTIMONIALS
“Smart, thoughtful, very grounded in her understanding of the broader determinants of health….Those are just a few things I can say about Heather Graham. Community coalition development, strategic planning, meeting facilitation, staff training – these are just a few of the ways I’ve worked with Heather. Her project management skills are sharp and her outcomes and deliverables on point and as agreed. Collaborative, creative and fun to work with – I look forward to continuing to work with Heather in the future.”
Axelle Janczur, Executive Director, Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services